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You might (or might not) be interested in Kim Newman's novel, Something More Than Night. It's a mystery with some supernatural elements, with Raymond Chandler as the main POV character. Very much a riff on Chandler's novels, especially The Big Sleep. If you're also into pre-WW2 Hollywood, the...

As someone who's done MIDI programming as a job ... No. :LOL:

This feels as though it would pair well with "Wherever you go, there you are."

Unrelated to the above: I woke up and there were people saying stupid stuff everywhere on line. Not just stupid stuff, stupid stuff that pissed me off. Seeing it in writing, it's not so different from any other day, I guess.

Sure! This is my wife and me a couple of years ago when we were hitting a lot of mound sites in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. You can tell she loves me.

Uh ... Complaints about the ride people explicitly weren't invited along on?

My tranquility improved greatly once I realized everyone else was wrong. 😉

Even if "get it out there" is just to the people at your table. You don't need to publish anything any further or more than that. I mean, if you want to, do, but you don't need to, to use and enjoy the material.

I gotta applaud someone who says first thing that they are irrelevant and not to be trusted. Good job, well done!

Barker's long had a gift for starting stories. Sometimes he gets mislaid on his way to finishing them, of course. His opening to The Great and Secret Show is similarly brilliant, and it's difficult to imagine a better start to a horror story than "There is no delight the equal of dread."

I don't think people in the Pleistocene would have objected to the GM making an adjustment to a roll that was in the players' interests. The main objection I see to it, personally, is it interfering with their ability to get how the world works--but considering how little of the rules the...

I can see that. Seems that in the Pleistocene, the GM ignoring a die roll or considering it to be one higher or lower or whatever would have been seen as cheating, because he would have been expected to be working against the players'/characters' interests; here in the Holocene, though, it might...

I haven't read anything like as much on TRPG history as some people here, but my strong sense is that it's been the same arguments and the same errors more or less since the beginning.

If you have strong preferences regarding either playing a game that's in print or being able to provide PDFs of the rules (I have both of those) you might fine Tales of the Valiant a relatively easy transition. This isn't even as strong as a suggestion, let alone a recommendation.

I remember thinking this was a pretty decent book, as well. The science had some wonky moments, and there was piano thing that ran counter to my own experiences with them--including moving one--but there wasn't anything that completely nixed my suspension of disbelief. That infrasonic thing...

You are telling me I should do something I have negative interest in doing. Do that again and I'll have to consider you a zero master.

There's some range, but your description falls in it, yeah. (I've had seasoned beef jerky that absolutely leaned on my palate's Lebanon bologna button.) I can find it as like packaged meat, but if I'm feeling like a treat I get it from the Pennsylvania Dutch market local to me. Honestly, I don't...

My mom's family are Pennsylvania Dutch. Lebanon Bologna is comfort food for me. Are you finding it in groceries/markets near you? (I didn't know it had spread as far as Texas.)